Ted Paterson is an accomplished academic and financial expert with extensive experience in management and family business management. Currently serving as the Director of the Center for Family Enterprise and the L.W. "Bill" Lane Professor in Family Business Management at Oregon State University since May 2015, Ted Paterson previously held the position of Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Idaho for nearly a year. Prior experience includes working as an Instructor and Ph.D. student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from June 2010 to May 2014 and serving as a Financial Advisor at Waddell & Reed from 2001 to 2010. Ted Paterson earned a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Management from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln between 2010 and 2014.